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July 2019

The Libyan National Oil Cooperation (NOC) said Thursday that a senior delegation arrived in China at the invitation of the country’s leading oil major China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to discuss investment and enhanced cooperation opportunities in the Libyan oil and gas sector.

The NOC delegation, headed by chairman Eng. Mustafa Sanalla, was welcomed by CNPC’s vice president and president of PetroChina, Hou Qijun, and the chairmen of CNPC's subsidiaries.

Al-Jazeera Channel said it had obtained documents that prove Sudan used its airspace to transport hundreds of mercenaries, recruited by Mohammed Hamdan Delgo (Hemitti) - deputy head of military council in Sudan -, from the Arab tribes in Darfur as well as neighboring African countries to Libya, Yemen and Eritrea.

Authorities in Lebanon, on Tuesday, issued arrest warrants in absentia for ten Libyan defendants in the case of the disappearance of Shia cleric Moussa Al-Sadr and his two companions Mohammed Yaacoub and Journalist Abbas Badr.

According to the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA), Judicial Investigator Judge Zaher Hamadeh issued the arrest warrants for son of slain Gaddafi, Saif Islam Gaddafi and nine other Libyan nationals including former spy chief Abdullah Sanussi, for their role in the disappearance of Al-Sadr.

The joint operations room of Misrata has arrested three people linked to Al-Qaeda - including an Algerian national - and seized their weapons.

The joint operations room said the Algerian national has been under surveillance for a period of time in Tripoli as he is the main wanted terrorist, adding that the operation of storming his house was done after obtaining a permission for it from the Public Prosecutor's Office.

The Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj met Wednesday with the Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed in Tunis and reviewed the latest developments in Libya.

Chahed expressed concern over the impact of Tripoli offensive on the lives of civilians, saying there can be no military solution to the crisis and that only a return to the political process is helpful to all Libyans.

The Head of the Libyan High Council of State (HCS) Khalid Al-Mishri has confirmed that the HCS is working on facilitating the political initiatives as per the Libyan Political Agreement and will not negotiate with parties that are advocating "aggression" and imposing their vision by force.

Al-Mishri's remarks came in a meeting with the UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame on Tuesday in Tripoli, where they discussed the latest developments of the military escalation in Tripoli.